Hirsch's h-index has become one of the most widely used bibliometric indicators to assess the success of a researcher working and so predict the impact of future production. In this paper is used as a measure of scientific productivity and quality of total citations, number of items and the index h of Spanish teachers of sports science. Also analyzed the number of authors for paper, in which papers are published journal and more items university professors published and most occur in Web of Science. The results show that the index h broadly correlates with citations and number of papers. The distributions by area, indicate that the Physical Education (PE) area has an Index average of 2.65 h and 1.61 Didactics of Corporal Expression (DEC) area. The most relevant results are the average proportion of items per teacher in the areas analyzed, between 4 and 7. The average papers authors signing by between 4 and 6. The most published journal Didactics of Corporal Expression teachers is Revista de Psicología del Deporte. In the Physical Education is Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. Finally, we argue that the implications of these results and the use there of may be given in academic decision making and research.
Professors; Sport; Journals; Web of Science; Bibliometric indicators; Papers
